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Featured Member
Alberto Gandsas (Argentina. 1936 )
Alberto is a self-taught photographer, started studies of documentary films with the director Moglia Barth (Cinematografía Huella 1961-1963 ) without leaving his passion of photography. Alberto has now left film behind to shoot digital.
He presents documentary character photography works in the Museum Beth Hatefutsoth, Tel Aviv (1987).
`` .....When in 1989 I traveled for the first time to Patagonia , I was captivated by the people and its landscapes. Being a self-taught photographer, since my youth I always carried a camera wherever I went, be it for pleasure or for work. The Patagonian panorama is so fascinating that I found that the small format camera was too narrow for me to print in a negative the image that unfurled before my eyes. Since 1993, I am fully dedicated to Patagonia and since 1996 I found in Panoramic Photography the format, and particulary, the space and air necessary to express myself.....´´
Since 1987, Alberto has had many exhibitions in Argentina , Mexico , Italy , Spain , Israel , New York and Washington DC and has received many awards for his photographs. Books 2002 - "In Full View" (A Telón Abierto) . Colón Theater History (Participation) 2003 - PATAGONIA " A voyage to the Southern Argentina through the panoramic photography" "World History": Patterns of Interaction. (Participation) 2006 - " PATAGONIA " the lingering eye
About the book " PATAGONIA " the lingerin eye
Photography and the lingering eye
Through these book, the lingering eye has echoed with the Patagonian landscape. This mystic region, which cradles all types of adventures, stories, traditions and cultures within its vast territory, acts as a magnet first attracting and then trapping the attentive observer who admires these natural sceneries; and we are bound to see and look at them with a lingering eye, there being nothing or nobody to harass or disturb us.
We are in need of time, of taking a deep and long breath to become harmonized, through it, with nature itself.
With the lingering eye we want to take in everything and dominate space. However, nature will dominate and impose its rhythm on us, so that the lingering eye can gaze at each and every detail, at each and every region, glacier, lake, mountain, valley or river. Even the precarious construction of a farm will become harmonized, as if by magic, with the landscape itself, which will lead us towards a nostalgia that has extremely sensitized us through . the lingering eye .
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